"Chat?" Ladybug asked with a cock of her head.

Adrien's heart broke a bit as he practically felt the pain illuminated in her sparkling tears, running down her face.

Drip.

He saw the tear drop off her chin.

Drip.

He saw Marinette sobbing in her bedroom.

Drop.

Another tear fell.

Drop.

Another memory fell from his consciousness.

"Ladybug..." Adrien heard the reporter start to say, and suddenly he was jerked back into reality. He could deal with his confusion later, right now she needed him.

He scooped her up, trying to make his grip as light as possible, but still couldn't avoid her crying out in pain.

"Sorry, no questions for the Lady today, boys." He said with his trademark grin as he used his baton to volt them up to a roof. He put his baton away and shifted his grip so that he was carrying Ladybug bridal style. Leaning close to her ear;

"Brace yourself, its gonna be a mew-sirable ride." Adrien tried to lighten the mood, as he leaned forward, running and jumping from roof to roof. He was rewarded with a choked laugh and a shaking breath that rattled as it was sucked in. He hugged her closer, snuggling his nose into her hair. How could he let this happen? He should have seen it earlier. He should have seen Ladybug's pain. Her jerkiness, her slowed reaction, the pain behind the mask, he should have seen it. He should have seen the Ladybug was Marinette.

Beep! BEEP! His thoughts were interrupted by the beeping of her Miraculous.

"Chat..." He heard her gasp, from shock or from having no air, he couldn't tell. Well, it didn't matter. What mattered was how he was going to get her home without disclosing the fact that he had unmasked her. She couldn't handle that, or at least not right now.

He would tell her eventually, of course. After everything calmed down, and feelings could be sorted out. Adrien really had no idea, how Marinette would react to him finding out her identity. She was always so adamant that their super hero and civilian lives should stay separate. But then again...she was dating Chat Noir as Marinette, he wasn't sure if that classified as separate. One thing Adrien was sure of, was that, she was going to be confused as he was. And, man, he was confused as hell.

It's not that he was upset that Marinette was Ladybug. That wasn't it at all. In fact, it was wonderful and amazing. Finding out that he loved every side of that girl...it was enlivening, intoxicating and amazing. Yeah, really, really amazing. But it was also surprising, and shocking and...world shattering. Its not that he didn't love her still. In fact, he couldn't find a time that he was more in love with her, because now he knew her...all of her. His two images of his lovely ladies was being stitched together, and with every redrawn memory he could see Marinette in interactions with Ladybug and vice versa for his interactions with Marinette. Looking back on it now, he could never understand how he didn't see it before.  He could, now, easily, see how they were the same person. Yet he could also see how different the two sides of her were. Such stark contrasts, yet he could see how they bled into one another, mixing with each side where they obvious weren't supposed to. Together they created a much larger picture. A beautiful, breathtaking picture. Together they created Marinette. Together, they created Ladybug. Together, they created her, his love. And that's all he needed.

But he was still confused as to why she hid her identity. She always said that is was better for their identities to be hidden, that they could protect Paris better that way....but she always said it with shielded eyes that wouldn't meet his, and he couldn't help but wonder...did she really feel that way? Was there any other reason for her to hide her identity?

He had his own reasons, to why he didn't reveal his identity to her as Marinette, ...mostly because he didn't think that she could love him as Adrien, not if she had feelings for Chat. But did Marinette truly believe he wouldn't love her as Ladybug? She knew that he had feelings for Ladybug, so then why?

He was interrupted from his roiling thoughts by a small, soft voice;

"Chat, there's an alleyway by my house, that I can transform in. I'll be safe there, but we have to hurry."

Adrien looked down at the girl he held tight in his arms and his eyes widened as he was shocked by what he found; Ladybug still had tracks on her face where her tears had escaped without consent, but said tears were no where to be found. Instead, her eyes held a sort of calm, as if it were the calm after the storm. Or perhaps before, Adrien couldn't tell.
Sapphire eyes burning a blazing blue, burning with determination and acceptance and...trust. But there were, also, dark shadows illustrating restrained emotions, lurking within those intense pools. Emotions he had only seen in Marinette. Anger, sadness, love, happiness, lust, longing, excitement, pain. Emotions usually suppressed for the sake of their identities, laid bare in her tormented, so very blue, eyes.

Adrien swallowed down his bursts of emotions for his girlfriend, and came to a decision.

"You'll be able to get to your house on your own?"

"I'm sure, I wouldn't suggest it if I couldn't." Ladybug had replied in a steady voice, but as Adrien looked down, he could have sworn he saw her lip quiver.

"Okay."

He made a final leap, his hair whipped back from his face before landing in the alleyway. He lightly set Ladybug down. Reaching out a hand, he rested it gently on her shoulder, to steady her, as her legs wobbled. He heard her suck in a shaky breath, before Ladybug glanced up at him.

Adrien's heart melted as he saw her try her best to give him a reassuring smile, the same smile he had been seeing on Marinette for weeks now, hell, maybe months.

"Thanks, Chaton, you really saved my ass today."

"Sure, thing, My Lady. After all, you have a really paw-some ass, it would be a pity, if something happened to it." As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he regretted them. He had a girlfriend. True, Ladybug happened to be his girlfriend but she didn't know that. Or wait, she knew that she was his girlfriend but she didn't know that he knew. Wait...fuck it, it was too confusing trying to make it all out.

To his surprise, she didn't kill him on the spot.

"Come now, Chat. I've heard that your heart now belongs to another. No more flirting, just to flirt."

He chuckled. That was a risky move she just used, there were a lot of holes in that story and if he really wanted he could easily call her out on it. He actually made Marinette jealous with herself. He could laugh out loud at the ridiculousness of this situation, if he didn't think he would make her worry.

"True, true. Now I'll leave you alone to your kwami." He bowed and raised himself up to the roof with his baton.

"Ah, but My Lady?"

"Yes, Chat?" Her voice echoed a bit, as it bounced off the wall up to him.

"Next time, you can just tell me that you were seriously injured." He threw the words casually over his shoulder as he bounded away, but he meant it. And he couldn't help but allow a small, sad smile to ghost his lips, as he heard her whisper;

"Okay. "

Author's Note: Okay... ..... we're going to pretend this was totally not The Fault In Our Stars ripoff. We're also going to pretend that even though the last chapter was in Adrien's point of view and this chapter was supposed to be in Marinette's...I forgot where I was going with that, but we're just going to forget this tiny fact, okay? We're also going to forget that this chapter is hella short because I'm going to update the next part right after I post this one.

One last thing we need to forget is the whole ending around 15 parts cause that's probably not going to happen.

P.s. Sorry for the late update, I've been moving and unpacking.

P. P.s Get ready for some serious fluff in the next chapter, and some possible angst...we'll see.

Have a good whatever!

Love,

Cutesylittledemon